John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Updike died in January 2009.
“Classic gems . . . These stories, like Mr. Updike’s finest novels
. . . preserve a time and a place through the sorcery of
words.”—The New York Times
“[Updike is] akin to Coleridge and Shelley, only with an American
twist. One story at a time, he [reminds] Americans that in spite of
life’s largesse, things fail; one sentence at a time, he reveals
that through the small details, it can be sublime.”—The Denver
Post
“Updike’s artistry—normally glimpsed in sections, like a person
through window slats—is wholly and deeply seen. . . . One reads
through the plenitude with delight, expectation, and at all times
gratitude.”—The Atlantic Monthly
"Classic gems . . . These stories, like Mr. Updike's finest novels
. . . preserve a time and a place through the sorcery of
words."-The New York Times
"[Updike is] akin to Coleridge and Shelley, only with an American
twist. One story at a time, he [reminds] Americans that in spite of
life's largesse, things fail; one sentence at a time, he reveals
that through the small details, it can be sublime."-The Denver
Post
"Updike's artistry-normally glimpsed in sections, like a person
through window slats-is wholly and deeply seen. . . . One reads
through the plenitude with delight, expectation, and at all times
gratitude."-The Atlantic Monthly
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